0 in a nervous or uncomfortable way because you are worried about what people think about you or your actions:
She blushed self-consciously when I complimented her.
the skinny, self-consciously awkward guy who always ends up alone in a corner at the office holiday party
I have this self-consciously shy side where I'm incredibly terrified of being in the limelight.
Ronnie looks away for a moment, self-consciously wiping her eyes.
But it also requires reflection, since the author self-consciously does not tell readers what is going on, nor explicitly how the frames fit together.
Learned discourse relied too much on the authority of intellectual elites to sway a self-consciously democratic populace that insisted on thinking for itself.
The self-consciously centrist government, however, tenaciously clung to power across these years.
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